1938 Crossroads Yearbook

The newest addition to the Joplin Public
School System is the Joplin Junior College.
This year’s work has been carried on under
the Extension Division of the University of
Missouri. For work successfully completed,
credit is given at the University.

The expectations are that the work of the
second year will be added next fall, thus pro¬
viding a full two-year junior college course.
The curriculum will be so planned as to
provide arts and science, pre-professional, and
terminal courses. The latter will probably
include business, teacher training, technical,
and musical courses.

In spite of the fact that our college is still
in its infancy, we have witnessed a year full
of activities. In the following pages, the
students of the Junior College wish to present
a partial record of the events of the first year.

E. A. ELLIOTT
SUPERINTENDENT
of JOPLIN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS

H. E. BLAINE
DEAN of the
JUNIOR COLLEGE

BETTY JACQUELYN BARLOW Joplin

Chorus; Alpha Kappa Mu.

ELLEN MARGARETTA BEASLEY Carthage

“The Patsy”; Chorus; Girls’ Sextette; Vice

President, Alpha Kappa Mu; Yearbook Staff.

WILLIAM BELK Joplin

Chorus.

LOYAL BELL Joplin

Men’s Club.

RICHARD BRAECKEL Joplin

Radio Play.

LANNIS E. CAMPBELL Joplin

DOROTHY CASTEEL Joplin

Chorus.

JACK COOPER Joplin

Vice President, Student Senate; President, Men’s
Club; Football; Track; Basketball, Business
Manager.

JAMES D. CORL Webb City

IRENE CORN Joplin

Alpha Kappa Mu.

ENOS CURREY, JR. Joplin

Student Senate; “The Patsy”; Chorus; Men’s

Club, Reporter; Chairman, Yearbook Staff;

Cheer Leader; Junior College Spyglass Repre¬
sentative.

LEONARD E. DUNCAN Webb City

Men’s Club; Football; Basketball; Golf.

EVELYN EGGERMAN Joplin

Alpha Kappa Mu.

JACK EGGERMAN Joplin

Mens’ Club.

JOAN EPPERSON Neosho

Secretary, Student Senate; “The Patsy”; Queen
Attendant; Chorus; Accompanist, Girls’ Sex¬
tette; Alpha Kappa Mu; Junior College Spyglass
Representative.

JANE FLETCHER Joplin

Chorus; Alpha Kappa Mu Reporter.

T. RAYMOND FLY Joplin

“The Patsy”; Chorus; Men's Club; Football.

BILL FOGG Joplin

Chorus; Men’s Club.

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VIOLET FOSTER Joplin

Girls' Sextette; Chorus; Alpha Kappa Mu.

PAUL GARLOCK Joplin

Stage Manager, “The Patsy"; Chorus; Men’s

Club.

JOHN P. GARRETT Joplin

Secretary-Treasurer, Men’s Club; Track; Foot¬
ball.

JACK GIBSON Joplin

J. R. GRAUE Joplin

“The Patsy"; Chorus; Football.

JOHN HARGIS Webb City

Chorus; Men’s Club.

LOLA HOUR Neosho

“The Patsy"; Chorus.

BETTY BELLE INGRAM Joplin

Business Manager, “The Patsy"; Alpha Kappa
Mu.

EMERSON JACKSON Joplin

“The Patsy"; Chorus Accompanist; Vice Presi¬
dent, Men's Club; Radio Play.

EDNA CREOLA KING Atlas

Alpha Kappa Mu.

RUTH KLINKSIEK Joplin

MARY LAIRD Joplin

Student Senate; “The Patsy"; Queen Attendant;
Chorus; President, Alpha Kappa Mu; Junior
College Spyglass Representative.

JAMES HAROLD LLOYD Joplin

Chorus; Men’s Club.

EDITH LUNDIEN Carl Junction

College Queen; Chorus; Alpha Kappa Mu;
Yearbook Staff.

GERALDINE MARSHALL Joplin

Alpha Kappa Mu.

MARTIN T. McCAMMON Joplin

Chorus; Men’s Club.

BETTY MEESE Joplin

Chorus; Girls' Sextette; Alpha Kappa Mu; Radio

Play.

KATHLEEN MOYER Joplin

President Student Senate; Chorus; Alpha Kappa

Mu; Cheer Leader.

BETTY PATTERSON Joplin

Chorus; Sergeant-at-Arms, Alpha Kappa Mu.

IRENE REYNOLDS Joplin

Alpha Kappa Mu.

THELMA REYNOLDS Cattetville

Alpha Kappa Mu.

R. E. RHODE Joplin

Men's Club.

HELEN MARGUERITE RITCHEY Joplin

Chorus; Alpha Kappa Mu.

MAITLAND SMITH Cattetville

MARY KATHERINE SOURS

Chorus; Alpha Kappa Mu.

Joplin

DELMER STRAIT

Football; Basketball.

Seneca

ARTHUR STRINGER

Men’s Club; Basketball; Golf.

Joplin

JOHN SWOPE

Catthage

HENDERSON TONNIES

Chorus.

Joplin

JUNE VAN PELT

Treasurer, Alpha Kappa Mu.

Joplin

JOE VAN POOL

Men’s Club.

Lamat

BAYRED VERMILLION

Chorus; Football; Basketball.

Seneca

DOROTHY LEE WILKINS

Joplin

Chorus; Girls’ Sextette; Secretary, Alpha Kappa
Mu.

RUTH WINTER

Alpha Kappa Mu.

Neosho

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Faculty — Standing —
Mr. Humphrey, Mr. Dyer,
Mr. Henning, Mr. Coul-‘
ter, Mr. Sommerville.
Seated — Miss Coffee, Miss
McCormick, Miss Drum¬
mond, Mr. Blaine.

Library — A busy cor¬
ner of the Junior College
library, which is popular
as a study hall.

Recitation — Shelby
Slinker demonstrates the
proper methods to use in
writing in English Com¬
position and Rhetoric L

Laboratory — Some
elaborate concoctions come
out of the chemistry lab¬
oratory. Students like
this class, often staying
overtime.

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The Patsy

Unusually well re¬
ceived was the Barry
Connor's comedy '‘The
Patsy/’ presented by a
junior college cast, De¬
cember 20. Directed
by Mrs. Iris Korn, the
play was repeated by
popular demand one
month later.

The story deals with
a middle-class American
family in which there
are two grown daugh¬
ters and a society-bound
mother to complicate
matters for the hard¬
working father. The
turbulent romances of
the daughters, the social
aspirations of “Mom,”
and the final rebellion
of the hen-pecked father
provide the theme for
the mad-cap comedy.

The cast: Mrs. Har¬
rington, the climbing
wife — Ellen Beasley;
Mr. Harrington, a cigar
salesman — Emerson
Jackson; Patricia, “the
Patsy” of the family —
Mary Laird; Grace, the
beauty and favorite —
Joan Epperson; Tony
Anderson, who marries
Pat in the end — Ray
Fly; Billy Caldwell,
Grace’s finance — J. R.
Graue; Mr. O’Flaherty,
a “fat old lawyer” —
Enos Currey; Sadie, the
“other woman” for
Grace to worry over —
Lola Houk; Trip Busty,
a fresh taxi driver —
Bob Fontaine.

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Back Row — Coach Humphrey, Raymond Fly, Bob Lawson, J. R. Graue, Bob Fontaine, Delmer
Strait, Frank Hamilton, Bill Snow, Bob Howard, Sergeant Treager. Front Row — Tom
Prince, Leonard Duncan, Jim Attebury, Bert Spencer, Jack Cooper, Bayred Vermillion.

FOOTBALL *■ STARTS FROM SCRATCH

'‘Spunky outfit!'' That was the terse
comment of many grisled veterans of the
football field last fall as they watched Joplin
Junior College battle. For the new college
not only organized a team after two weeks
of classes, but plunged without hesitation
into intercollegiate competition. Games were
played with outstanding teams of the dis¬
trict, and although our team won no games,
we are proud of their record. The strong
Monett Junior College team was held score¬
less through almost three quarters of play.
The team also held its own remarkably well
against Miami and Coffeyville Junior Col¬
lege teams and against the reserve squads
from Pittsburg Teachers College and Spring-
field Teachers College. First touchdown
honors went to Frank Mitts as a beautiful
passing attack succeeded against the Spring-
field Teachers.

The team was coached by E. O. Hum¬
phrey, who was for many years coach at
Joplin High School. Coach Humphrey
took a small group of boys — there were no
reserves — who came from schools all over the
district, and who played all kinds of foot¬
ball, and welded them into a team worthy
of a veteran school.

BASKETBALL

The most successful venture of the new
junior college into the sports world this
year was in the field of basketball. The
team won about sixty per cent of its
games, playing both junior colleges and
independent teams. In the Open League
competition at the Y. M. C. A. court,
our boys finished in a tie for second place
with the Joplin Horseshoe team. The
team also entered two independent tourna¬
ments — the Anderson Tournament and
the Four-State Tournament at Joplin —
and went to the semi-finals in each. In
the Four-State Meet the junior college
defeated two very strong teams, the Co¬
lumbus IGA team (38-35), and the
Wyandotte All-American Indians (32-
20).

Walter Wheeler, physical director at
the Y. M. C. A., coached the team. The
season was so crowded that local news¬
papers referred to the junior college as “the
team which plays every night.” Headed
by Captain Shelby Slinker, the team in¬
cluded Delmer Strait, Bert Spencer, Jim
Attebury, Bayred Vermillion. Donald
Russell, and Bob Lawson. When Law-
son was forced by unavoidable circum¬
stances to drop school at the height of the
season, George Beck stepped in and filled
his shoes well in the remaining games.
The climax of the season was the fast,
closely-contested game in which Joplin
defeated Ft. Scott Junior College on the
Joplin High School court. We mowed
'em down!

Above are a few scenes from a busy and
highly successful season. The games were
fast, as can be seen from the pictures.

Delmer Strait, Bayred Vermillion, Shelby Slinker, Don Russell, Leonard Duncan, Jim Attebury,
Bert Spencer, Coach Wheeler.

BASKETBALL REVIEW

The basketball team practiced in the afternoons at the Y. M. C. A., and played
most of the home games on the Y. M. C. A. court. The Fort Scott and Monett
Junior College games were played in the high school gymnasium.

Our team broke even with Fort Scott, losing there and winning here, and with
Drury, winning here and losing at Springfield in a close game. In open league
play the team held two victories over the Joplin Oilers, two over the Anderson
Athletic Club, and two over the Rex Recreations team of Webb City, and lost one
game each to the Columbus IGA team, the Joplin Horseshoes, and the Atlas team.
Junior College teams from Miami and Monett also scored victories over our team.

Three players from our team were ranked in first, second, and third places in
the Open League as outstanding scorers: Strait, with 99 points, Slinker, with
88 points, and Spencer, with 81 points. This record speaks well of the team which
made those scores possible.

TRACK REVIEW

A nucleus for a fair track team was constituted by the following men: Ray¬
mond Fly, Elby Butcher, John Garrett, Boyd Prince, and Jack Cooper. These
men worked diligently under the supervision of “Duke” Dyer, track coach.

Due to the fact that various complications arose, it was necessary to cancel sev¬
eral scheduled meets with other colleges in the district. Next year, however, it is
expected to have a full track schedule.

In order that those men who have displayed such commendable spirit might find
some sort of reward for their efforts, three college relay races were run as a special
attraction in the Joplin Relays. The men who competed were as follows: John
Garrett, Jack Cooper, Elby Butcher, Don Russell, Dick Gardner, and Joe Van Pool.

T. FRANK COULTER
SUPERVISOR of
MUSIC

JUNIOR COLLEGE CHORUS

One of the most popular organizations this year was the college chorus.
Although still in its infancy, this group has appeared several times on both
the high school and college assembly programs.

To Mr. T. Frank Coulter, who has been supervisor and director of public
school music and has taught both high school and college groups, should go
much credit for the success of this organization, because of his competent
direction. The activities of the chorus have been limited, and little publicity
has been received, since it was impossible to arrange road trips or competition
with other colleges this season. However, the organization has been a source
of satisfaction to those college students who like to sing.

Back Row — Harold Lloyd, John Hargis, Bill Fogg, Jimmy James, Martin McCammon, Ted
Eberle, V. A. Leverett, Don Russell, Bayred Vermillion, J. R. Graue, Emerson Jackson, Ray¬
mond Fly, William Belk. Front Row — Betty Ingram, Mary Laird, Ellen Beasley, Jane
Fletcher, Edith Lundien, Violet Foster, Guyneth Parker, Kathleen Moyer, Betty Patterson,
Betty Meese, Helen Ritchey.

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ROYALTY *

COLLEGE QUEEN

MISS EDITH LUNDIEN

ATTENDANTS

MISS MARY LAIRD

MISS JOAN EPPERSON

CO LLEGENSIA

Above . . . Alpha Kappa Mu
Men's Club

Below

Junior College Students Not Having Pictures

ATTEBURY, JIM .. ...Joplin

BAILEY, JOHN _ Carthage

BOLING, IZORA _ Joplin

BROWN, VIRGINIA _ Joplin

BUTCHER, ELBY _ Joplin

COLLIER, HERMAN _ Stella

CONNER, MARY LOUISE _ Joplin

COULTER, CHARLOTTE _ Joplin

DAVIS, MAXINE ____ Joplin

DAVIS, ROLLAND _ Webb City

DE BEUGHEM, MRS. _ Joplin

DUCHARDT, FREDERICK _ Joplin

EMPSON, HOLMES _ Neosho

FAHR1G, REBECCA _ Joplin

FERGUSON, JOHN _ Joplin

FONTAINE, ROBERT _ Joplin

FREEMAN, FLORENCE _ Joplin

GARDNER, DICK _ Joplin

GAULT, TED _ Joplin

GILSTRAP, MARVIN _ Joplin

GREENWELL, BETTY ANN _ Joplin

HAKAN, VICTORIA _ Joplin

HART, LAMAR _ Joplin

HEISKELL, RAYMOND _ Joplin

JAMES, JIMMIE _ Joplin

KISSEL, NANCY _ Joplin

KISSEL, MRS. ROSE _ Joplin

LADD, FRANCES _ Joplin

LAWSON, ROBERT _ Seneca

LEE, FRANK, JR _ Joplin

LEVERETT, V. A.____ _ Joplin

LEWIS, MELVIN _ Joplin

LINK, ROBERTA _ Galena

McAllister, buster _ Joplin

McDonald, elaine _ Jopim

McFANN, JOANN Joplin

McPEAK, CLETA _ Joplin

McMullen, nerva mae _ jopim

MERTZ, LOUISE _ _____ Joplin

PARKER, GUYNETH _ Joplin

PETERSON, ORLAN _ Sarcoxie

PHILLIPS, MARIAN _ Joplin

PRINCE, BOYD __ Joplin

PRINCE, TOM _____ Joplin

REGAN, DORA _ Joplin

ROLLEG, HAROLD _ Joplin

RUSSELL, DONALD _ Seneca

SHOEMAKER, HELEN _ Joplin

SHAFER, HAROLD _ Joplin

SHAFER, ROLAND _ Joplin

SHORT, OSCAR _ Webb City

SLINKER, SHELBY _ Joplin

SMART, MRS. HELEN _ Joplin

SPENCER, BERT _ Webb City

STAMPS, DONALD _ Stella

STEPHENSON, CLYDE _ Joplin

STUBBLEFIELD, PAUL _ Joplin

TAYLOR, CLAUD _ Carthage

THOMAS, MARVIN _ Neosho

THOMAS, RUTH _ Webb City

WOLFE, EUGENE _ Diamond

WOOLSEY, MRS. HELEN _ Joplin